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Friday, June 05, 2009
Tax Freedom Day
Today is the day that the Fraser Institute calculates as when Canadians have made enough money this year to pay their taxes. That's right five months into the year and you are finally working for yourself and not the government. To celebrate the Fraser Institute has released this video:
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on June 5, 2009 in Economic freedom | Permalink
Comments
Tax Freedom day meant a whole lot more to me prior to the gov't running a 50MM dollar deficit.
Posted by: Andrew | 2009-06-05 11:53:39 PM
Canadians are now paying more in taxes than food and shelter combined. And our "conservative" government is pissing more down the toilet as fast as they can. So now we can tell our children that there is no such thing and the best they can hope for is survival. We're living under a tax regime designed to control us for eternity. So much for the Canadian Dream and "free" enterprise.
I'm sick of it and you should be too.
Posted by: The original JC | 2009-06-06 7:43:59 AM
Should read:
So now we can tell our children that there is no such thing as the "Canadian Dream" and the best they can hope for is survival.
Posted by: The original JC | 2009-06-06 7:45:23 AM
Maybe Canadians should be asking themselves on Tax freedom day "Have I been sold a lie?" followed by "Have I bought a lie?"
Posted by: Buddha Chan | 2009-06-06 4:41:05 PM
The original JC wrote:So now we can tell our children that there is no such thing as the "Canadian Dream" and the best they can hope for is survival.
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But first we should tell them when we reach "Food Freedom Day" and "Shelter Freedom Day" because these are more essential to survival. People today reach Food Freedom Day far earlier than what is fair to the producers of the food. Conversely, many people are reaching Shelter Freedom Day far later than is necessary for survival because their desires or their perception of their personal worth far exceeds their needs. I also see many people who strive to meet "Boat, ATV, Snowmobile, Satellite TV, Tobacco, Alcohol, and Wii Freedom Day" while complaining that taxes to provide public infrastructure are "designed to control us for eternity".
While we're at it we could tell them when we reach the "Health Care Freedom Day" and "Civil Security and Protection Freedom Day", as subsets of "Tax Freedom Day".
We have the privilege of living in a democratic society in which we are allowed to thrive according to the effort we put into our lives. We weren't born with "rights", we were born in a country that provides us with rights. Our taxes pay for our democracy and protection of our perceived rights.
I don't know what you believe the Canadian Dream is but I'll bet there are a couple billion people on this planet who would tell you that you are living it.
Posted by: twinbay | 2009-06-07 7:00:14 AM
We have the privilege of living in a democratic society in which we are allowed to thrive according to the effort we put into our lives. We weren't born with "rights", we were born in a country that provides us with rights.
Posted by: twinbay | 2009-06-07 7:00:14 AM
Spoken like a died in the wool communist.
Yes we were born with rights. The government's job is to preserve those rights, not grant them.
And democracy is the sham under which we have the illusion of choice...we don't. We have "owners".
The problem with you socialists is that eventually you run out of everyone else's money.
"A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything,
and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody."
George Bernard Shaw
Posted by: The original JC | 2009-06-07 7:36:38 AM
...ah become a contractor. More tax breaks that way.
Posted by: tomax7 | 2009-06-07 8:26:08 PM
Tax freedom day? What a joke! We should be focusing on Freedom of Debt Day.
Posted by: Bob Peloquin | 2009-06-09 1:33:00 PM
But that day will never come! Accentuate the positive.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2009-06-09 1:54:15 PM
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